Amazing close-up footage of a massive battle-scarred great white shark off southern Australia. [📹 Dean Spraakman]

In Australia, a man built a tiny picnic table to feed local birds and small animals. One grateful squirrel made full use of it, happily enjoying its lunch there. [📹 Katie Canzanese]

Meet the raspy cricket, also called the leaf-rolling cricket — a remarkable insect from the Gryllacrididae family. What sets it apart? It produces silk, not from its body like spiders do, but from its mouth!

Every now and then, it’s worth recalling this orangutan’s priceless reaction to that trick.

The goat was extremely collaborative [📹 villager_snakes08]

Raising two little ones is no easy job! 🐻🤣

Cheetahs don't roar, they meow and purr like house cats. [📹 africansafarimovie]

Ducks typically aren’t great at adopting ducklings the way geese often are, due to differences in their social behavior. But some make exceptions—like Stella, who took in these ten orphaned ducklings and treats them as her own.

You’ve probably heard a wren singing before — but what you might not know is that its song is especially pleasing to our ears because of its remarkable similarities to human music 🔊 [📹 Lawrence Chatton]

Gandalf the white

Crocodiles on the shores of the Nabileque River, Corumbá, Brazil

Something light and joyful to brighten your weekend… 😍🐘♥️

Incredible demonstration of hover control and head stabilization from a kestrel surfing the breeze. [📹 Anthony Roberts]

In a world where you can be anything, be kind

It approached the dog politely and calmed it down.

This bull hippo has likely just taken over the herd, and that means one brutal but instinctive thing: any offspring fathered by the former alpha must be eliminated. There are two primary reasons for this behavior: First, when a female hippo has a calf, her attention and energy are devoted to raising it, meaning she won’t be available to mate with the new dominant male. For the new alpha, that’s unacceptable—his goal is to pass on his genes as quickly and broadly as possible. As they say, to the victor go the spoils. Second, the calf represents the old alpha’s bloodline. The new leader isn’t about to let another male’s genes persist within his territory, nor will he tolerate sharing resources—like access to water—with a rival’s offspring. Interestingly, this grim act isn’t limited to male hippos. In situations where resources become dangerously scarce, even mothers may resort to killing their own young if they can’t afford to sustain them. This practice, called infanticide, is a survival mechanism seen across a surprising variety of mammal species. Lions, dolphins, baboons, bears, prairie dogs, meerkats, chimpanzees, and otters have all been documented engaging in it. While it may be disturbing to us, in the animal kingdom it’s just another harsh strategy in the relentless pursuit of survival and reproductive success. [📹 petergeraerdts]

Nature is metal [📹 frontiersurvival74]

Capybara babies and puppies — cuteness overload! 😍

The panda bear sea angel (Notobranchaea macdonaldi), an ocean-drifting pteropod related to snails. "Pteropod" means "wing-foot". [📹 MBARI]

This elephant helps a gazelle avoid drowning